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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] OCaml-Java is going alpha, to github

On 2014-07-15 13:38, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> Go is in particular interesting because it provides a model of
> lightweight threading that can be backed by multiple cores.

You may want to know that Go is not memory-safe in presence of
race conditions. It uses multi-word fat pointers that cannot be
atomically updated, yet does not globally protect them with a mutex
"for speed", or prevent such updates using the type system.

-- 
Peter Zotov
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